Such is the case with the recent arrest of Randy Credico, a Democratic primary candidate in the New York State Governor’s race who is challenging corrupt New York Governor Cuomo.

Credico was arrested on August 13, 2014 while on his way to a campaign interview.

Credico, while waiting at the Dyckman Street subway stop in New York City, witnessed two plain clothes men aggressively stopping and harassing a man in the tunnel. At first unaware of the fact that the two men were police, Credico whipped out his cellphone camera and began filming.

When the two men, who were actually plainclothes transit police, discovered that they were being filmed, they arrested Credico.

Despite the fact that the New York Police Department’s own Police Department Patrol Guide states that “taking photographs, videotapes or tape recordings” is not cause for arrest or detention so long as the activity does not jeopardize the safety of officers or others, Credico is being held in the Bronx at the Transit Police office at 145 Street and St Nicholas Avenue (1-212-281-5303).

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Currently, the police are refusing to give Credico an appearance ticket (that is, release him with an order to show up in court on a specified date), claiming that he has an outstanding warrant for disorderly conduct from 2012, according to a press release from Credico’s campaign. Credico’s associates deny this and claim that, as a candidate for Governor, he is highly visible and is in the news every day. He has also made several court appearances related to the campaign. If there really was an outstanding warrant, he would have been arrested long before this, he claims.

Credico was kept in jail overnight and is to be arraigned on August 14.

While one’s social status should never be grounds for the decision by police to arrest or not, the fact that a New York State gubernatorial candidate is not safe from the brutality and treacherous violation of rights by the NYPD, one of the most corrupt and vile police departments in the country, is a testament to the fact that the police fully see themselves as above the law. While it is not likely that gun-grabbing Mayor de Blasio will ever be in danger of arrest by the NYPD, the New York Police Department has been waging war on the people of New York City for years, with its efforts recently intensifying.

Murders, shootings, general brutality, stop and frisk, and other forms of Constitutional Rights violations and harassment are the stock and trade of the NYPD.

Unfortunately, the NYPD is not seen as a shame to police forces across the country, it is seen as a model.

"This morning, I heard someone on the radio say “this is 2014, not 1950-something”….meaning that this OIS was indicative of institutional racism and oppression. Nope, a single police shooting of a black man does NOT, I repeat, does NOT hearken back to the days of Jim Crow……."

PtownVAMike, Officer.com forums

"And no one will point out the obvious —- that if he was that kind of person he wouldn’t have gotten into a position to be shot by the police."

chapwolfe, officer.com forums

"And we all know inner city kids that are not worth trying to help. They are lost, polluted by the “lifestyle”, the Fat Al and Jacksons of the world."

so fla cop, officer.com forums

"They told us in the academy: “The media can go anywhere the public can go… so make your outer perimeter really big”."

tanksoldier, officer.com forums

"The next time a cop gets jammed up for shooting someone, he should claim that he was going for warning shots and that he was just trying to scare ‘em."

Chomp, officer.com forums

"The other officers weren’t available at the time of her resistance. She did resist the officer. If you do that, you will be dealt with force until you are fully subdued, especially right by a highway where people’s lives are in danger. She should be glad she wasn’t shot."

JButler, Ars Technica forums

With the way she resisted the officer, yes, it was justified."
JButler, Ars Technica forums

..in relation to the woman being beaten down by a cop.

Yes, someone edited the video to make it look more controversal. This video is missing the early part where the police tries to stop/grab her from walking on the highway shoulder and she kind of hits the officer with her bag or arm. Shame on Ars for not showing the full version. Journalism at its worst."

JButler, Ars Technica forums

I yell “PIKACHU” before I tase someone."
Rudy8116, 06-04-2014 08:22 PM

A cop’s signature block on the officer.com forums

Parents did that to their child not the officers."
jcioccke 05-30-2014 12:57 PM

In the officer.com forums, regarding an incident where a cop flashbanged a toddler’s crib, leaving the toddler with a sucking chest wound.

I asked to see the search warrant and someone said "we'll show it to you when you open the gate, open the gate now or we will tear it down." Not wanting my property damaged, I opened the gate and half a dozen police officers stormed into my property, some with guns drawn. The officers had AR-15 rifles and bulletproof vests. They lied to me because as soon as I let them in they refused to show me the search warrant, saying "we don't have to show it to you you aren't the property owner." 27328 short street is my legal residence listed on my driver's license and as a tenant, resident and occupant i am legally entitled to see any search warrant executed on my residence.

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These officers never did identify themselves and at this point in time I still don't know who they were. Refusing to identify is a violation of the Patton Village police manual as well as a violation of common law. Same with failing to announce themselves as police officers and refusing to produce a warrant upon request. They came into my home in the middle of the night and threatened me with guns drawn, frightening my family including my fiance, my 1 1/2 year old toddler and 15 year old stepson, illegally detaining me, and for what? Arrest warrant? Dangerous fugitives? Narcotics? Weapons? Explosives? No. none of the above but AN ALLEGED CITY ORDINANCE VIOLATION INSPECTION! Which they didn't even perform because IT WAS TOO DARK TO DO IT! The actions by the Patton Village police force on this evening were improper, illegal, and uncalled for.

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Police shot and killed a 20-year-old Monday who was wanted for probation violation, but the man’s brother said he was wearing headphones and could not hear officers’ orders.

Officers were called about 7 p.m. to a 7-Eleven store in Salt Lake City after witnesses reported a man waving a gun around.

Dillon Taylor was walking out of the convenience store with his brother and cousin when officers arrived, and police said Taylor matched a description of the suspect.


Three officers said they ordered Taylor to reveal his hands, but they said he ignored their commands and was “visibly upset.”

Taylor was then shot by police and was pronounced dead at the scene.

His brother said Taylor was wearing headphones and did not hear the officers until they surrounded him.

“He couldn’t hear them, so he just kept walking,” said Jerrail Taylor. “(Then) they had guns pointed at his face. That’s when he turned off the music. I saw them point guns at my brother’s face, and I knew what was going to happen.”

One officer told Dillon Taylor to get on the ground, but another told him to place his hands on top of his head.

“He got confused, he went to pull up his pants to get on the ground, and they shot him,” Jerrail Taylor said.

Police have not said whether Taylor was armed at the time, but his brother insists he didn’t have a gun.

A mentally ill woman was shot and killed by a Phoenix police sergeant at an apartment complex in the city after she threatened officers with a claw hammer, police officials said on Friday.

Michelle Cusseaux, 50, was killed on Thursday by a single gunshot at the threshold of her apartment as officers were attempting to serve an emergency court order to take her to a mental health facility, Phoenix police spokesman Sergeant Tommy Thompson said.

Officers came face-to-face with a hammer-wielding Cusseaux when she opened the front door just as officers were able to get through a security door, Thompson said. He said she then raised the hammer and went at the officers.

Cusseaux was shot by a Phoenix police sergeant at close range and was pronounced dead later at a local hospital, he said.

The sergeant, whose name was not immediately released, was put on administrative leave as part of department policy. He is a 19-year Phoenix police veteran.

"It's a very dangerous ruling," Zilversmit said. "If you say anything to the police, that can be used against you. Now, if you don't say anything before you are warned of your rights, that too can be used against you."

The state Supreme Court in a 4-3 ruling said Tom needed to explicitly assert his right to remain silent — before he was read his Miranda rights — for the silence to be inadmissible in court.

Tom has been freed on $300,000 bail pending his appeal.

Tom was arrested after his Mercedes sedan plowed into a car driven by Lorraine Wong, who was turning left onto a busy street.

Prosecutors argue that Tom's car was speeding at 67 mph in a 35 mph zone when the collision occurred. He was placed in the back of a police cruiser but was not officially arrested and advised of his rights until later in the day.

Prosecutors said Tom's failure to ask about the Wong family while detained showed his guilt.

The officers got the wrong man, but charged him anyway—with getting his blood on their uniforms. How the Ferguson PD ran the town where Michael Brown was gunned down.
Police in Ferguson, Missouri, once charged a man with destruction of property for bleeding on their uniforms while four of them allegedly beat him.

“On and/or about the 20th day of Sept. 20, 2009 at or near 222 S. Florissant within the corporate limits of Ferguson, Missouri, the above named defendant did then and there unlawfully commit the offense of ‘property damage’ to wit did transfer blood to the uniform,” reads the charge sheet.

The address is the headquarters of the Ferguson Police Department, where a 52-year-old welder named Henry Davis was taken in the predawn hours on that date. He had been arrested for an outstanding warrant that proved to actually be for another man of the same surname, but a different middle name and Social Security number.

“I said, ‘I told you guys it wasn’t me,’” Davis later testified.

He recalled the booking officer saying, “We have a problem.”

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But the booking officer was not ready just to let Davis go, and proceeded to escort him to a one-man cell that already had a man in it asleep on the lone bunk. Davis says that he asked the officer if he could at least have one of the sleeping mats that were stacked nearby.

”He said I wasn’t getting one,” Davis said.

Davis balked at being a second man in a one-man cell.

“Because it’s 3 in the morning,” he later testified. “Who going to sleep on a cement floor?”

The booking officer summoned a number of fellow cops. One opened the cell door while another suddenly charged, propelling Davis inside and slamming him against the back wall.

“I told the police officers there that I didn’t do nothing, ‘Why is you guys doing this to me?’” Davis testified. “They said, ‘OK, just lay on the ground and put your hands behind your back.’”

Davis said he complied and that a female officer straddled and then handcuffed him. Two other officers crowded into the cell.

“They started hitting me,” he testified. “I was getting hit and I just covered up.”

The other two stepped out and the female officer allegedly lifted Davis’ head as the cop who had initially pushed him into the cell reappeared.

“He ran in and kicked me in the head,” Davis recalled. “I almost passed out at that point… Paramedics came… They said it was too much blood, I had to go to the hospital.”

A patrol car took the bleeding Davis to a nearby emergency room. He refused treatment, demanding somebody first take his picture.

“I wanted a witness and proof of what they done to me,” Davis said.

He was driven back to the jail, where he was held for several days before he posted $1,500 bond on four counts of “property damage.” Police Officer John Beaird had signed complaints swearing on pain of perjury that Davis had bled on his uniform and those of three fellow officers.

The remarkable turned inexplicable when Beaird was deposed in a civil case that Davis subsequently brought seeking redress and recompense.